This book formed the basis of the super popular TV series McMafia. For its film adaptation, the BBC invited the best British horror director and leading Russian actors: Alexei Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, Danila Kozlovsky. The ins and outs of the billion-dollar fortunes amassed by the criminal international after the collapse of the Soviet bloc: racketeering, contract killings, embraces of presidents and mafiosi... Who rules the world now? You will see that the Great Criminal Revolution of the end of the last century affected not only Russia: it deserves to be called Worldwide. Misha Glenny, BBC Russia and Eastern Europe correspondent, described in detail the unprecedented redistribution of property in the post-Soviet space, the Balkans, the Middle East, America and Africa. Risking his life, he investigated the struggle of criminal gangs and the formation of mafia clans - from running brothels to joining the world elite. A bonus for our reader is a group portrait of the Russian oligarchy against the backdrop of the international criminal elite.